EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 95 OF 1987
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport
Navigation Act 1912 - Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment)
Sub-section 425(1) of the Navigation Act 1912 (‘the Act’) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act or for the conduct of any business under the Act.
The Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations (‘the Regulations’) are made pursuant to that sub-section.
The Regulations are amended to omit provisions relating to ships’ draught marks as such matters are now dealt with in Marine Orders, Part 16 (Load Lines).
Details of the amending Regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the amending Regulations come into operation on 1 June 1987, being the date on which Marine Orders, Part 16 is expressed to come into operation.
Regulation 2 omits from existing regulation 1A the definition of ‘Shipping Registration Act’ as that definition is superfluous with the repeal of existing regulation 5.
Regulation 3 repeals existing regulation 5 as that regulation is redundant following the coming into operation of Marine Orders, Part 16.
Regulation 4 repeals existing Schedule 2 as that Schedule is superfluous following the repeal of existing regulation 5.